Recycling Articles
Web-Based Tool Helps CBRE Measure Its Waste
It is easy to comply with environmental regulations when fluorescent bulb recycling efforts are automatically updated and quantified. As a result, you are years ahead of most competitors, and prospective clients can swiftly compare an actual "Green" track record with the somewhat vague promises of other property management companies.
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The Easy Way To Go Green
The social mandate to "go green" may seem like one more headache for office managers responsible for creating and policing recycling programs for hazardous and other waste.
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Why Recycle Used Lamps?
Facility professionals know that using energy efficient lighting goes a long way in reducing overall energy costs. Throughout their operational life, efficient lighting systems contribute not only to visibility and safety for building personnel, but they also reduce emissions from fossil fuel generation.
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Recycling Fluorescent Lamps: It Can Be Affordable and Easy
Environmental threat and EPA regulations require fluorescent lamp recycling. New methodology greatly simplifies the process and reduces expense.
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Studies Demonstrate Benefits of Corporate Environmental Responsibility
Three studies by organizations such as the United Nations (U.N.) Global Compact and Goldman Sachs presented on July 5 at the Global Compact Leaders Summit find that an increasing number of business leaders see corporate responsibility as a way to compete successfully and to build trust with stakeholders -- and that sustainability front-runners in a range of industries can generate higher stock prices.
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Group Relamping: All Together Now
The entire process may well distract employees near the lamp. And without close oversight, the last step is often truncated by simply dropping the lamps into the nearest dumpster where they are quickly covered — and probably smashed — by other trash, releasing their mercury. The labor involved in this process may be a significant hidden cost, especially when compared to alternatives.
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Lamp Recycling Contractors Might Be Able To Help
Any contractor who works in a building can assist owners with lamp recycling. Collection and recycling services can be a new profit center for contractors, or offered as a value-added service for better customer relations.
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New Features on LampRecycling.com
Air Cycle Corporation is dedicated to providing easy and efficient recycling solutions. The EasyPak program offers a cost efficient recycling option for organizations that either generate small quantities of recyclables or are limited in their storage space. The growing popularity of the program can be attributed to the simple steps required to recycle lamps, batteries, ballasts, and thermostats.
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Battling e-waste
Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
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Lamps & Ballasts: End-of-Life Decisions
Environmental awareness affects every area of institutional and commercial facilities, as well as most activities of maintenance and engineering departments. In recent years, such awareness has extended to lighting systems, primarily lamps and ballasts. Managers face a host of options and decisions related to properly disposing of these products at the end of life (EOL), and developing a successful strategy starts with understanding the challenges and the resources available.
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EPA Releases Report On Lamp Crushing
Broadview, IL - A study of lamp crushing machines was released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on August 24th, 2006. Air Cycle's Bulb Eater® system was one of the devices tested in the study (Manufacturer C).
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There's now an intelligent approach to lamp maintenance, disposal, and performance
Disposal of fluorescent and HID lamps that contain mercury and lead can be a trial for facility managers. Almost every state's regulations differ from the others. But they all require time consuming storage, packaging, paperwork, and organization.
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Transwestern becomes first property management firm to partner with EPA in resource conservation program
(August 18, 2006, Bethesda, MD) Transwestern Commercial Services was named an official partner in a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program to conserve natural resources, in a ceremony held in Bethesda, Maryland.
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A New Look at Lamp Disposal
Guidelines for the proper disposal of mercury-containing lamps are changing across the United States. For example, as of Feb. 8, the state of California does not allow the disposal of everyday materials - such as fluorescent lamps - in trash headed for landfills. As more is learned about the dangers of mercury contamination in the country's groundwater, rivers, streams, and air, regulators and enforcers all over the country are tightening controls on fluorescent lamp, battery, and electronic equipment disposal.
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EPA Revises Standards For Recycling Cathode Ray Tubes
In an effort to increase the collection and recycling of cathode ray tubes (CRT), EPA announced on July 19 that it is simplifying the federal hazardous waste management requirements for CRTs and CRT glass destined for recycling.
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Low-Cost Lighting For the Long Term
No one deliberately chooses a lamp or fixture that will cost more to operate than one that would do so equally well at a lower life-cycle cost. Yet many buildings have lighting systems that were selected without much regard to operating costs. Unless facility executives and system designers pay attention to factors that influence lighting operating costs, they may be strapping themselves with ongoing costs that could well have been avoided.
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Trammell Crow Shares Lamp Recycling Case Study
Waste is lost raw material, lost product, lost resource, and lost profit. Generating significant amounts of waste is not sustainable for today's society. The accelerating pressures on natural resources, impact of new technology on resource use, increasing waste generation and the need for more sustainable approaches to using natural resources represent new challenges to our society.
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Hazmat Management Matters - Article
To comply with hazardous waste regulations, managers need a clear understanding of the wastes their facilities generate
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Good Riddance to Old Lamps
Recycling used lamps, experts say, is the best way to keep mercury in fluorescent lamps out of the environment
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The Trammell-Crow Company Commits to Recycle Fluorescent Lamps through Air Cycle Distributor Esquire Environmental.
Trammell-Crow is the top owner of commercial office space in the Northern Virginia, DC, Maryland metropolitan area, managing 270 properties and over 22 million square feet. Nationwide, Trammell-Crow manages nearly 400 million square feet. In the DC area alone, that means over 2 million lamps in use. Trammell-Crow will be collecting all of its spent bulbs at these facilities through a contract with Esquire Environmental Services, Inc., based in Fairfax, and AERC Recycling Solutions in Ashland. Trammell-Crow will use a combination of drum-top crushers, "recycle-by-mail", and lamp pick-up.
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Campus Facilities Maintenance article on The Hidden Benefits of Lamp Recycling
Transwestern Commercial Services is one of the region's largest property management firms with over 13 million square feet of office space in Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland. Transwestern has voluntarily committed to recycle its mercury-containing lamps, ballasts and batteries as an opportunity to do its part to protect the environment. Transwestern's goal of 100% lamp recycling in its Mid-Atlantic Region has the potential to prevent between 175,000 and 220,000 fluorescent lamps from reaching local landfills each year.
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Building Services Management Article on Lamp Crushing and Lamp Recycling
In an effort to cut disposal costs and be more environmentally friendly, Metro North purchased a fluorescent bulb crusher and began recycling its fluorescent bulbs. The crusher is a covered 55-gallon drum that holds a crusher, vacuum, and HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter to contain dust and mercury released during crushing.
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Harford County Government Recycles Fluorescent Light Tubes
Harford County has initiated a program to recycle all of the burned-out fluorescent light tubes collected from county buildings. Fluorescent tubes contain a tiny ball of mercury, about 40 milligrams, that turns into a vapor during use. The recycling program will keep this highly toxic element out of the environment by using a special recycling device called a Bulb Eater.
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Bulb Recycling
By diverting waste from landfills, facility managers can help the environment and move toward sustainability.
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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIROMENTAL QUALITY announced Drum-Crushing pilot project
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EPA Fines NYC College for Hazardous Waste Violations
Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, faces $111,199 in fines from the EPA for alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations.
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NOTICE OF CHANGES TO K-12 SCHOOL GRANT PROGRAM
As you may know, the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, in this fourth year of its school lighting upgrade program, recently awarded 320 grants totaling more than $10 million to assist K-12 schools throughout our state to upgrade to high quality, energy efficient lighting systems.
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COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES USE DELL GRANTS FOR CAMPUS COMPUTER RECYCLING EVENTS
ROUND ROCK, Texas, April 14, 2005 - Dell will provide three U.S. college and university customers $10,000 grants to be used to conduct computer collection events on campus this spring.
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